While most of the attention in the Chicago election season has been on the mayoral race, more than a dozen City Council seats remain up for grabs, and will be decided in a runoff later this spring.
Chicago's top two candidates for mayor went head-to-head in their first forum ahead of the runoff election set for April. Lisa Chavarria has the highlights.It does appear that Ald. Daniel La Spata will avoid a runoff, as he has upped his vote total to 50.09%. He is just 26 votes above the threshold that would trigger a runoff in the race against Sam Royko.Lamont Robinson is comfortably in the runoff, but did not get enough votes to avoid a second challenge.
For the first time since they secured spots in the April 4 runoff election, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a televised forum hosted by NBC 5 and Telemundo Chicago on Wednesday, March 8.Richard Wooten and William Hall will square off in the April 4 runoff as they aim to replace Ald. Roderick Sawyer.In the race to replace Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza, Peter Chico and Ana Guajardo have advanced to a runoff.Ald.
For the first time since they secured spots in the April 4 runoff election, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson faced off in a televised forum hosted by NBC 5 and Telemundo Chicago.Ald. Gilbert Villegas received just under 46.5% of the vote, and as a result he’ll face Leonor Torres Whitt in the April runoff.Ald. Timmy Knudsen received just under 27% of the vote, and will face Brian Comer in the April runoff to retain his City Council seat.
Angela Clay and Kim Walz are set to square off in this runoff, with the latter candidate beating out Marianne Lalonde for the spot in an election to replace Ald. James Cappleman.Joe Dunne and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth earned spots in this runoff to replace Ald. Harry Osterman.
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